A Middle East With Natural Borders

By

Robin Moroney

Dec 6, 2007 5:38 pm ET

Where are the natural boundaries of the Middle East? In the January issue, Vanity Fair columnist Cullen Murphy asked four experts to come up with a hypothetical political map that reflected the region’s underlying social, religious and demographic contours, inspired by a recently discovered map of a similar 1918 effort by T.E. Lawrence (he proposed […]